Welcome to Contour Academy
Classic Car Restoration Courses
Historic Vehicle Bodywork Restoration
Here you can learn the essential techniques for the restoration of and making of vehicle body panels. These techniques are relevant to working on cars, bikes, boats, trains, planes and sculptural artwork. From restoration of original parts to making custom panels.
Our vehicle body restoration courses
The courses – Stage 1 and Stage 2 – deal with all levels of competence, from complete beginner to the experienced professional. We teach students how to work with basic hand tools through to specialist machinery; some of which we have developed ourselves.
Popular Courses
Forming and Welding Mild Steel
Forming and Welding Mild Steel
Forming and Welding Aluminium Alloy
Forming and Welding Aluminium Alloy
Making Patterns, Jigs and Tooling
Making Patterns, Jigs and Tooling
Mentoring one-to-one
Mentoring one-to-one
What our clients say
An extremely useful course, full to the brim with very applicable techniques taught by a true Master Craftsman.
An excellent, comprehensive introduction to the key techniques required for metal working, based on extraordinary depth of experience and a focus on quality craftsmanship.
Surpassed all expectations and very, very valuable. Nice to know how to do it properly after all these years.
Thoroughly enjoy the course we did, and bought one of the videos which was a good reminder of the course too. Bruce and the team were really informative.
Arranged a course for our team, and Contour did a sterling job. Everyone welcome, and learnt so much. Worth booking and attending.